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Stokes^ 



Bonny Best 

 Early Tomato 



Stol^es' " Bonny Best Early" Tomato 



has more lhaii met my most sanguine ex- 

 pectations. It was offered for the first last 

 year, and from every section where it was 

 sent it has made good. A customer in 

 Texas writes me: "It is the Tomato for 

 Texas." A customer in Florida writes: "Its 

 splendid foliage is just what we want here 

 to protect the beautiful fruit;" and from 

 Illinois comes the word: "The most 

 pleasure of the season lies in a cut-glass 

 dish of Bonny Best Early Tomatoes on our 

 sideboard. They ripen in very dense foli- 

 age of vine, and for color and ripeness are 

 the most beautiful fruit we have ever had." 



Stores' "Bonny Best Early" Tomato 



is given the place of honor — the first page 

 in the book. This magnificent novelty for 

 the past eight years has been carefully 

 re -selected, each season, for earliness, 

 solidity of fruit, smoothness and evenness 

 in the ripening up to the stem. 



Stokes' "Bonny Best Early" Tomato 



is fully ten days to two weeks earlier than 

 " Chalk's Early Jewel " and within a day or 

 two, if not quite, as early as the "Sparks 

 Earliana." Many who have tested it the 

 past season have declared it was as early 

 as the celebrated "Earliana." It is a 

 vigorous grower, enormously prolific and 

 with splendid foliage, which will protect the fruits from 

 the hot sun on days when other varieties, with less foliage, 

 would scald. As a shipping Tomato it will be found to be 

 one of the very best, as the entire picking will grade into 

 the same crate, owing to its remarkable evenness of size. 



Stokes' "Bonny Best Early" Tomato will soon be 

 known from one end of the land to the other as the finest 

 shipping Tomato ever introduced. In color it is an intense 

 velvety glowing scarlet, the very best color for the table or 

 canning, and ripens evenly all over up to the stem. In 

 shape it is beautiful as can be seen from the above illustra- 

 tion and from the colored illustration on the front cover. 

 It is roundish and slightly flattened at the stem end, but 

 thicker through than most other Tomatoes of its class. 

 This makes it a magnificent variety for slicing. Its greatest 

 characteristic, however, is it marvelous uniformity of size 

 and smoothness in shape. 



Stokes' "Bonny Best Early" Tomato holds its size clear up to the end of the season to a remarkable degree. 

 Its smooth, even -sized handsome fruit is salable in market and satisfactory for your table long after most other 

 Tomatoes are down and out. It is a winner for the early, main-crop and late markets. 



In a field of nearly two acres growing for seed, w hich I carefully inspected the past season, I could not find a single 

 rough fruit or one that would not make a select market specimen. The fruits setting at the crown are all of a uniform 

 size and ripening e\ enly up to the stem to a remarkable degree. The fruit on the branches is equally choice. 1 want 

 to popularize this Tomato right from the start, so I am making a low price for a novelty of its class. 



Pkt. 10 cts., 'Aoz. 35 cts., oz. 60 cts., ' Jb. $2, lb. $7.50, by mail, postpaid 



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